Help with centering please

[Collins403]

Hi is there anyone in the United Kingdom who can help with centering, I have a gerber fastball s30v, well I have 2 one is perfect and one is not centred its brand new I just dont feel comfortable taking it apart. Does anyone fix or know of anyone who can fix the centering.

I dont mind sending it out and paying just not sure how to locate that person or service.

Kind regards

 

[Rusty Shackelford]

My guess is disassembling and reassembling would fix it and it looks like a pretty straight forward folder to me. If it were mine I'd take it apart and do a full cleaning then put it back together with some fresh oil before I paid to send it somewhere. Hope you get it figured out either way! Let us know how you turn out.

 

[Collins403]

My guess is disassembling and reassembling would fix it and it looks like a pretty straight forward folder to me. If it were mine I'd take it apart and do a full cleaning then put it back together with some fresh oil before I paid to send it somewhere. Hope you get it figured out either way! Let us know how you turn out.

That's fantastic mate thank you this is what it look like now, I will take it apart and update.

Much appreciated

 

[sharp_edge]

I use the following method and it always works. loosen all body screws (but not take them out). First tighten the pivot screw to the point you like, i.e., no side to side blade play. Then with the blade open and locked, stick it in between a door or drawer (or clamp the blade with a vise if you have one). Then bend the handle toward the side that the blade is off centered to. Hold the position while tightening the body screws. Finish and check. Sometimes this may result in the blade off centered to the other side, meaning over-adjusted. If so, you can readjust using the above method. So really, how hard you bend the handle depends on how much off centered the blade is and what model of knife you are working on.

I know there is the more popular method of sticking folded paper between the blade and the scale (when the knife is in the closed position) and then tighten the screws. But this method does not work for me sometimes.